Eddie Howe reacts to another Newcastle United defeat - and St James' Park boos

Another week, another Newcastle United defeat. And this time, it could be their most damaging of their recent run of poor showings.

More points dropped from a winning position too, as Sven Botman gave them an early lead v the Bees, only for the game to be flipped on its head by half time, with the Magpies going in 2-1 down.

Bruno Guimaraes levelled from the spot, but Dango Ouattara netted in the closing stages to ensure Brentford did the double over Newcastle this season. It leaves NUFC as close to the bottom three as they are the Champions League - it’s simply not good enough. And, the St James’ park crowd let the players and the manager know their thoughts at half and full time, with boos ringing around the stadium.

Here’s what Eddie Howe thought of it all.

Eddie Howe reacts to Newcastle United defeat to Brentford

On the boos, Howe said: “Yes, obviously not what we want. It is hard, but I don't blame the supporters for expressing their feelings. I think we've created that ourselves to a point with a run of games where we haven't played as well as we can.

“We've defended poorly and we've got punished and there's no other thing to do than accept responsibility for it.”

Howe, speaking to Match of the Day, he added: “A strange game because I think at 2-2 you think you're going to go on and win it. The game got away from us with a really poor third goal, the construction of it we're all out attack, which is fine in that moment of course. But we need to do it in control, and we weren't in control of the transition well enough.”

Newcastle being easy to score against: “It's been a massive problem in this last group of games, we all know if you defend well you've got a chance with our attacking players of scoring. We scored two today and we lost the game and got nothing from it which is hugely frustrating from our view point.”

Bruno Guimaraes back out on the pitch and penalty: “A big pressure moment and he responded with a really cool penalty. I thought he did well to get through the game considering he's missed quite a chunk of training.”

Kieran Trippier tries to take heat of NUFC head coach Eddie Howe

Newcastle captain Kieran Trippier, speaking to Sky Sports: "I take full responsibility as a senior player in the dressing room. It's nothing about the manager. We are going through a tough spell - no doubt about it. We need to get our heads down.

"It's my responsibility as a senior player to calm things down."

Alan Shearer says NUFC signings ‘not good enough’ - but Howe should NOT lose job

Speaking to the BBC, Shearer said: “Clearly things aren’t good enough currently, but for me Eddie Howe is not under pressure.

“The signings in the summer, apart from Malick Thiaw, have not been good enough and hit anything like top form. They simply haven't justified the money that was spent on them as yet and that has hindered Howe.

“Like any manager, things need to get better and they need to turn a corner, but in terms of him losing his job, absolutely not.”